Africa In the age of Ai. - by Nomshu Writes✨

2023.....my sisters let's call her Nelly and the other Tj, I was about 16 when my sisters where exitedly conversing and an Ai tool called "chat gpt" Tj.... Have you heard of the app called chat gpt its an Ai tool and it helped me create my cv, we don't have to pay for a cv anymore they laughted and I was so excited about this ai tool. But looking back now, I realize that moment was more than just excitement. It was a quiet introduction to a much bigger change.Because what felt like convenience was also replacement . What felt like opportunity was also a warning.That simple tool didn’t just make things easier it quietly replaced someone’s job.And if something as small as writing a CV could be taken over so easily, I began to wonder… what else could disappear without us even noticing?But this reality didn't dawn on me until I was 18.Have you ever woken up and thought, the course I'm studying or the course I studied could it be replaced by Ai if you ever got a job related to it? What future would be left for African workers in the digital economy?. According to the little research I've gathered big tech companies like google and Microsoft build Ai using African data and labor butttt...... They are underpaid and the profit goes else where with is genuinely very sad because these workers have no choice, Kenyan workers (Allegedly ) where reportedly paid around 2 dollars per hour to label harmful Ai content for companies like open Ai via outsourcing firms. This brought me to a realization that we are not replaced by Ai, not really buttttttt.......instead we are in it, in my opinion it's digital colonialism. The African digital economy still has a glimpse of hope in the future because eve with the high rise of Ai tools taking over millions of Jobs it has also created millions of opportunities for things like youtube Ai automation and other factors. The future of African workers in digital economy aside Ai has pushed me to interlectual laziness Im no longer able to think on my own without the help of Ai tools, Ai is also replacing not just jobs but friendships and relationships I've almost lost friendships because the ai tools are people pleasers who always says even if you killed someone you are not wrong you did it for a reason and so many other too perfect to be true responses that bothers me sometimes. No one even talks about the privacy conserns and how our data could be used against us in the future. A quite decay of skills begins as well Writting becomes prompting Thinking becomes edited. Ai is not just taking over jobs but some people idolize it so much it becomes a god, I once did..... And I'm glad I snapped out of it. More often we mine data the way we once mined gold, but this time.... We don't even have a mine, we are part of the youngest continent dicoverd but yet, the future keeps asking for experiences we where never given. I don't believe Ai is replacing or sabotaging the future of workers in the African digital economy because I belive that Ai is only as good as you allow it to be.

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